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Voices From Middle-America
or why I worry that Obama won't be elected:
here are some random comments (as found, not edited, just picked the top three, the rest were the same) from some totally innocuous news story about the candidates on some mainstream site (AP) on the Internet
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superglide84 01:40:32 AM Jun 16 2008 Too bad the government is broke. The coloreds won ( Read more... ) -
IMHO this is one of the reasons Mrs Clinton lost
"Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans-born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace, proud of our ancient heritage-and unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which this Nation has ( Read more... ) -
OK Leaving Politics Behind: Would Stonehenge Be Built Today?
[as envisioned by screenwriter Yoni Brenner courtesy of the NY Times]
At least part of the mystery of Stonehenge may have now been solved: It was from the beginning a monument to the dead. - The Times, May 30 ( Read more... ) -
[NY State only] SPECIAL ALERT - Call Gov Patterson to support same-sex marrige
On May 14 New York Governor David Paterson told all NY State Agencies that New York must recognize same-sex marriages performed in Massachusetts (& with luck California on the 17th), Canada, (various countries in) Europe and other places where they are legal. The directive should provide gay couples with as many as 1,300 rights afforded to married ( Read more... ) -
Great Quote! "Libraries are brothels for the mind. . . .
. . . . Which means that librarians are the madams, greeting punters, understanding their strange tastes and needs, and pimping their books." - Guy Browning
Can't even take credit for finding this independently. It's the tag-line on the interesting Blog Depraved Librarian.
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have a Happy and Most Blessed May Day
I usually make my own graphics but this site I just found has lovely stuff, so I'm happy to help pimp it out (if you'll pardon the expression LOL!) to one and all:
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